Campus & Community

It wasn’t long ago that Maria Soltero-Rivera learned an important lesson: “Different is good.”

Companies collect information about you each time you use their store loyalty card to get a discount on a purchase. And when you visit a store and use its free Wi-Fi, your online activity is being monitored.

For more than two decades, Penn has had a strategic and systematic approach to economic inclusion.

Point-of-care glucose meters, or glucometers, have revolutionized the landscape for diabetics and practitioners. Using only a small drop of blood to measure blood glucose in an instant, they make it easier for people with diabetes to maintain their levels in a healthy range. Pet owners, too, sometimes rely on glucometers to monitor their diabetic animals.

Penn Electric Racing took home the gold at an international competition in mid-June.

Penn Electric Racing has taken home top honors at an international competition.

After meeting online as students in University of Pennsylvania music professor Carol Muller’s open learning course, a professor at a small college in Central Appalachia and a teacher at a university in Ecuador began a dynamic collaboration.

Ever since she was a 6-year-old living in the Philippines, University of Pennsylvania student Mary Encabo knew that she wanted to be a teacher.  While she had a strong sense that she had to teach the world something, she didn’t know exactly what that something was at the time. 

Jason Morgan held a variety of jobs through his 30s, but it was a job lay-off during the economic downturn that led him to the University of Pennsylvania. In 2009, Morgan lost his job as a wedding photographer but soon found a job as a clerk at a restaurant on the Penn campus.

At the University of Pennsylvania, Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher is a matchmaker of sorts.